Microsoft's Social Computing Group

Bernarn Moon writes up an interview he had with Lili Chen, Microsoft's Social Computing Group group manages and discussed with her some of the cool stuff her group is working on in the space of social computing, blogs, virtual worlds and a couple of research applications, Inner Circle and Wallop.

If you like this sort of thing, there's pleny of cool content to sift through - check out the recorded sessions from Social Computing Symposium 2005 sponsored by Microsoft Research. Here are my highlights:

• David Weinberger: From Trees to Tags (presentation)
• Extracting Signal from Noise in Social Networking, Moderated by Linda Stone (presentation)
• Howard Rheingold: Exploring the Social Institutional Dimensions of MoSoSo Design: Are Smart Mobs Institutions for Collective Action? (presentation)